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Chapter 36: URBANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA'S MEGA-CITIES: A PERSPECTIVE FROM CHINESE INDUST... more Chapter 36: URBANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA'S MEGA-CITIES: A
PERSPECTIVE FROM CHINESE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

Interpretative anthropology, especially as explained by Clifford Geertz, taught us that a cultura... more Interpretative anthropology, especially as explained by Clifford Geertz, taught us that a cultural phenomenon may be and should be interpreted as a text, whose relevant features are not only the forms in which it has revealed itself and the categories through which it has been perceived and interpreted, but also the description of the cultural issue made by internal and external observers and, of course, the vertical and horizontal relationships between these elements 1 . Therefore, the analysis becomes a narrative operation which is in a dialectic relationship with the great meta-narrative systems -or even in opposition to them -that marked the period identified as modernism by some disciplines, often in a mutual morphogenetic connection with that phase called post modernism: according to Lyotard, the fading of significance of metanarrations constitutes the distinctive element of post-modern. The ambiguity of this category discourages its use, yet it is a fact that the recent years -studded by powerful social, cultural, technologic and environmental phenomena -have experienced a linguistic explosion and a semantic wear and tear so powerful that they could not help leaving a trace on settlements, beginning with the cities. In 1979 Lyotard also recognized an atomization of language and its dispersion in "clouds of narrative elements" which, actually, produced a corresponding spatial atomization, the coming apart in the relationship between place and signification, in which the place was made up of the city category: Lyotard, Foucault, Fish and other scholars interpreted this phenomenon as a fragmentation which generated "interpretive 1 CLIFFORD GEERTZ, The Interpretation of cultures, Basic Books, New York, 1973. communities" as defined by Fish, or a "platelet reticular network" as defined by Lyotard 2 . Therefore, they claimed a process which would replace the modernist concept of a rational city based on large scale urban plans with a type of city seen as a composition of nuclei and, moreover, as a palimpsest, since the diachronic element concerning "space which encloses and contains time" had entered the debate over urban planning and the nature of cities.

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by Jenna M Condie, Martina Winker, Christopher Luederitz, John Hughes, Mahin Al Nahian, Dakila Kim Padoga Yee, natalie rosales, POOJA SHETTY, Gaurav Sikka, Mukesh Gupta, PhD, Christopher John Chanco, Domenico Caprioli, Gintare Pociute-Sereikiene, Basak Tanulku, and Aakriti Grover

Welcome to the book of blogs, a collection of diverse works from researchers across the globe who... more Welcome to the book of blogs, a collection of diverse works from researchers across the globe who all have something important to say about the way in which our world is changing and how we can strive towards a more sustainable future. This book emerged from an International Social Science Council (ISSC) meeting in November 2014 of early career researchers, who gathered in Taiwan to discuss transitions to urban contexts from a social science perspective. The seminar involved weeklong discussions about sustainable urbanisation and the contribution of social science research to sustainable urban futures. Yet a week was not long enough to hear the diverse perspectives within the room, let alone incorporate the plethora of viewpoints beyond it. Within the ISSC discussions we concluded that one definition of sustainable urbanisation is not possible and that sustainable urbanisations are in play. The transitions to urban contexts taking place, and those that are anticipated within our futures, were characterised in terms of their plurality, diversity, fluidity, and change. This book embraces such uncertainty by welcoming dialogues, rather than a monologue, on the urbanisation processes taking place across the world and what to do about the places we build, and the impacts of human activity on the environment, health and climate.

Chapter 36: URBANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA'S MEGA-CITIES: A PERSPECTIVE FROM CHINESE INDUST... more Chapter 36: URBANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA'S MEGA-CITIES: A
PERSPECTIVE FROM CHINESE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

Interpretative anthropology, especially as explained by Clifford Geertz, taught us that a cultura... more Interpretative anthropology, especially as explained by Clifford Geertz, taught us that a cultural phenomenon may be and should be interpreted as a text, whose relevant features are not only the forms in which it has revealed itself and the categories through which it has been perceived and interpreted, but also the description of the cultural issue made by internal and external observers and, of course, the vertical and horizontal relationships between these elements 1 . Therefore, the analysis becomes a narrative operation which is in a dialectic relationship with the great meta-narrative systems -or even in opposition to them -that marked the period identified as modernism by some disciplines, often in a mutual morphogenetic connection with that phase called post modernism: according to Lyotard, the fading of significance of metanarrations constitutes the distinctive element of post-modern. The ambiguity of this category discourages its use, yet it is a fact that the recent years -studded by powerful social, cultural, technologic and environmental phenomena -have experienced a linguistic explosion and a semantic wear and tear so powerful that they could not help leaving a trace on settlements, beginning with the cities. In 1979 Lyotard also recognized an atomization of language and its dispersion in "clouds of narrative elements" which, actually, produced a corresponding spatial atomization, the coming apart in the relationship between place and signification, in which the place was made up of the city category: Lyotard, Foucault, Fish and other scholars interpreted this phenomenon as a fragmentation which generated "interpretive 1 CLIFFORD GEERTZ, The Interpretation of cultures, Basic Books, New York, 1973. communities" as defined by Fish, or a "platelet reticular network" as defined by Lyotard 2 . Therefore, they claimed a process which would replace the modernist concept of a rational city based on large scale urban plans with a type of city seen as a composition of nuclei and, moreover, as a palimpsest, since the diachronic element concerning "space which encloses and contains time" had entered the debate over urban planning and the nature of cities.

by Jenna M Condie, Martina Winker, Christopher Luederitz, John Hughes, Mahin Al Nahian, Dakila Kim Padoga Yee, natalie rosales, POOJA SHETTY, Gaurav Sikka, Mukesh Gupta, PhD, Christopher John Chanco, Domenico Caprioli, Gintare Pociute-Sereikiene, Basak Tanulku, and Aakriti Grover

Welcome to the book of blogs, a collection of diverse works from researchers across the globe who... more Welcome to the book of blogs, a collection of diverse works from researchers across the globe who all have something important to say about the way in which our world is changing and how we can strive towards a more sustainable future. This book emerged from an International Social Science Council (ISSC) meeting in November 2014 of early career researchers, who gathered in Taiwan to discuss transitions to urban contexts from a social science perspective. The seminar involved weeklong discussions about sustainable urbanisation and the contribution of social science research to sustainable urban futures. Yet a week was not long enough to hear the diverse perspectives within the room, let alone incorporate the plethora of viewpoints beyond it. Within the ISSC discussions we concluded that one definition of sustainable urbanisation is not possible and that sustainable urbanisations are in play. The transitions to urban contexts taking place, and those that are anticipated within our futures, were characterised in terms of their plurality, diversity, fluidity, and change. This book embraces such uncertainty by welcoming dialogues, rather than a monologue, on the urbanisation processes taking place across the world and what to do about the places we build, and the impacts of human activity on the environment, health and climate.